book chapter
The Nilotes of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Uganda
International African Institute • (4) • Published In 1952 • Pages: 45-67
By: Colson, Audrey Butt.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This account by a professional anthropologist, provides a convenient summary of materials found elsewhere in the file on the social, political and religious organization of the Shilluk. While the treatment is necessarily summary and brief it covers adequately the information found in the published accounts of Shilluk.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Cultural identity and pride
- Community structure
- Territorial hierarchy
- Classes
- Chief executive
- Clans
- General character of religion
- Mythology
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Shilluk
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2010
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Africa
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Africa
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- book chapter
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Betty Potash ; 1960
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1952
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sudan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Audrey Butt
- First ed. published in 1952 under title: The Nilotes of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan and Uganda
- Only pages 45-67 are included in the Shilluk collection
- Includes bibliographical references(p. 182-198)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 67004224
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Shilluk (African people)